403 Error when accessing phpMyAdmin on an ec2 Instance - mysql

Question

I wanted to install a LAMP environment on a new EC2 instance using Amazon-Linux following amazon's tutorial. Then I wanted to have phpMyAdmin so I installed it using sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install phpmyadmin and created a link to the www directory sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin.
Then I altered the /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf file to allow access.
The current file:
# phpMyAdmin - Web based MySQL browser written in php
#
# Allows only localhost by default
#
# But allowing phpMyAdmin to anyone other than localhost should be considered
# dangerous unless properly secured by SSL
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
# These directories do not require access over HTTP - taken from the original
# phpMyAdmin upstream tarball
#
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/setup/lib/>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/setup/frames/>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None
</Directory>
# This configuration prevents mod_security at phpMyAdmin directories from
# filtering SQL etc. This may break your mod_security implementation.
#
#<IfModule mod_security.c>
# <Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
# SecRuleInheritance Off
# </Directory>
#</IfModule>
But still I'm getting a 403 error, when I try to access /phpMyAdmin
error_log:
[Thu Aug 27 13:45:47.702678 2015] [authz_core:error] [pid 25763] [client 37.49.61.176:59958] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/
[Thu Aug 27 13:45:48.699611 2015] [authz_core:error] [pid 25763] [client 37.49.61.176:59958] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/
[Thu Aug 27 13:49:22.181819 2015] [authz_core:error] [pid 25765] [client 37.49.61.176:60222] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/
What else could be the error?

Answer 1

The issue was fixed after I removed
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
from
/etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
And then don't forget to restart by using the following command
sudo service httpd restart

Answer 2

Copy the following code in your /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
I found it here http://howsolve.com/i-always-get-a-403-error-with-phpmyadmin-ec2-aws/
# phpMyAdmin - Web based MySQL browser written in php
#
# Allows only localhost by default
#
# But allowing phpMyAdmin to anyone other than localhost should be considered
# dangerous unless properly secured by SSL
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
# These directories do not require access over HTTP - taken from the original
# phpMyAdmin upstream tarball
#
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/setup/lib/>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/setup/frames/>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from None
</Directory>
# This configuration prevents mod_security at phpMyAdmin directories from
# filtering SQL etc. This may break your mod_security implementation.
#
#<IfModule mod_security.c>
# <Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
# SecRuleInheritance Off
# </Directory>
#</IfModule>